1.
to pour down; to shower down
to fall continuously and intensely from above, used for rain, sunlight, or other things that come down
太陽の光が降り注ぐ。
Sunlight pours down.
激しい雨が降り注いだ。
Heavy rain poured down.
花火の火の粉が夜空から降り注いでいた。
Sparks from the fireworks were showering down from the night sky.
降り注ぐ is a compound verb expressing something pouring or showering down from above.
VERB TYPE: Godan verb (u-verb), intransitive
KANJI BREAKDOWN:
- 降る (to fall - rain, snow)
- 注ぐ (to pour)
CONJUGATION:
- 降り注がない (negative)
- 降り注いだ (past)
- 降り注いで (te-form)
COMMON SUBJECTS:
- 雨が降り注ぐ (rain pours down)
- 日差しが降り注ぐ (sunlight showers down)
- 光が降り注ぐ (light pours down)
- 雪が降り注ぐ (snow showers down)
FIGURATIVE USE:
- 愛情を降り注ぐ (to shower with love) - transitive use
- 祝福が降り注ぐ (blessings rain down)
NUANCE:
- Implies abundance and intensity
- Often poetic or descriptive
- Evokes imagery of things cascading from above